Date of Award
8-1992
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Education: M.S.
Department
Teacher Development
College
School of Education
First Advisor
Lowell Mortrude
Second Advisor
Russell Schmidt
Third Advisor
Judy Parham
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Ginn Basal Series, Total Reading
Abstract
Albany Area Schools implemented Total Reading as its new reading program for Grades 1 through 3 in 1987. It was felt that reading scores were on a steady decline and that a multi-sensory, literature-based approach to reading was essential in improving Albany area elementary students reading scores.
This study follows one group of students who began first grade in 1984 through third grade in 1986. This group of students was taught reading in the Ginn 720 Basal series. These students reading percentages were compared with a group of students who began first grade in 1988 and completed third grade in 1990. These students were taught reading through Total Reading.
It was found that Total Reading did not significantly improve the reading percentiles of those students who went through the Total Reading program. In several quartiles, the Ginn series outperformed Total Reading.
Recommended Citation
Krogman, William J., "A Comparison of the Ginn 720 Basal Series with Total Reading in the Albany Area Schools" (1992). Culminating Projects in Teacher Development. 72.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/ed_etds/72
